The ranting of an IT Professional:

November, 2008

I encountered an problem in Watchguard System Manager with service watch. The connection's graph works fine but the bandwith graph does not. Watchguard has confirmed this is a known issue to be resolved in a future release.

So I posted a couple days ago about a problem with Fortigate causing traffic to be dropped. Fortigate support has been entirely unhelpful on this suggesting that perhaps it was a DNS issue or a HTTP profile issue. They tell me this after I explan that when I tracert the IP address the packets drop....

So usually I am on here posting solutions but today I am going to post a problem because I am having trouble finding a solution.
Here is the situation, a network protected by a Fortigate 100A firewall, they can't reach a website. A tracert to the website shows that the packets are being dropped...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/19/hospital_computer_virus_shutdown_update/
Three hospitals have been effected by this and do you know who is sufferring here? The patients, not to mention the staff who are likely running themselves ragged trying to keep up with this. People with potentially...

After troubleshooting an issue with the SSO agent causing internet disconnections for users I have discovered from Watchguard tech support that this is a known issue. It will be fixed in the next update. There are no workarounds in place other than disabling the SSO agent.

Like many in the IT industry I enjoy ending a long day of working with technology by occasionally playing with technology. Over the weekend I decided to sit down and play some Fable 2 when I was immediately notified that there was a new update from MS. After installing the update I continued to...

I am not by any means a guru with Citrix Xen App so as this was passed onto me, hopefully it will help some of you. I set up Citrix with Web interface. The web interface worked internally but not externally (using a NAT rule on the firewall). They get the log in screen and can see the app's but...

http://www.itworld.com/security/57285/once-thought-safe-wpa-wi-fi-encryption-cracked
Read this article, this is pretty bad. Despite many of my vociferous objections about implementing wireless on your trusted network, many of my client's are doing just that. Everyone loves the convienance of...

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An IT consultant’s critical (and often caustic) look into the problem’s he faces on a daily basis. This will cover not only hardware and software related issues, but issues involving the vendors and clients he deals with.